osprey

Description:

Large fish hawk or fish eagle with very frontal "owly" golden eyes. Found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Much like the Bald eagle in habit and voice(an odd little bird chirp when conversing with its mate and a slightly more hawklike call when angered), and to the casual observer, looks, but builds it nest more out in the open: often on the cross bars of electric poles as opposed to hidden in the trees

Habitat:

side of highway - there is an irrigation canal that after the floods has trapped fish making the fishing easy

Notes:

This is one of a pair with a next not far away http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/108... I was driving to work today and at the end of the highway saw this fellow on a light pole eating a fish, stopped and started to take a picture. He flew off screaming, and I realized I hadn't seen him come out of the treeline. So I drove back one pole(it was raining quite hard) and used my car as a blind, to get this series. He glared at me(to my delight) but didn't fly off. We have at least a dozen nests in about a ten miles radius